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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder the National Guard members who will be faced with what to do when they are given illegal orders. Rest assured, when the prosecution for those crimes against our Nation are prosecuted, it won’t be the head of the snake or his pals getting the axe. It’s going to be YOU.

Choose wisely.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 1d

The "antifa army" that Noem stared down 😂😂😂

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Adorable Spite @adorablespite.bsky.social · 10h

Read about the Insurrection Act, be informed..

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Insurrection Act Explained

The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

www.brennancenter.org

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

In a nutshell.

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

@warnock.senate.gov: "You know that it's a critical moment any time Raphael Warnock and Marjorie Taylor Greene are essentially saying the same thing. That doesn't happen often... She saw that the premiums of her own adult children will go up so much in 2026 that their healthcare is unaffordable."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2d

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime.

Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon.

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Gov. Pritzker Statement on the Texas National Guard Being Deployed to Illinois

CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement after the Illinois National Guard was informed that the Texas National...

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 8h

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 10h

The “girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa” couldn’t be any younger than 90 years old you stupid fucking fascist orcs.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 5d

Is there nothing sacred

Split-screen image from a Fox News broadcast. On the left side, news anchor Jesse Watters is shown in a studio wearing a dark suit and striped tie. On the right side, there is a photo of Sean Spicer while wearing a full-body white bunny costume, holding the oversized bunny head under his arm. The on-screen text reads: "FORMER ANTIFA MEMBER SPEAKS OUT" and "JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME."

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

The same kind of people who once hunted escaped slaves now wear ICE badges. History didn’t vanish, it rebranded.

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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson is such a fake Christian piece of shit, it’s hard to articulate in words.

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 10h

I am loving this badass version of @schumer.senate.gov who is saying “No FUCKING Way!” to the Republican healthcare cuts!

#RepublicanShutdown #MAGAshutdown #TrumpsHealthcareShutdown
#Momsky

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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 10h

Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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FeministSociologistPhD @femsocphd.bsky.social · 10h

A deal in the middle east while Ice Gestapo beat up, choke, abduct, and terrorize dem cities disqualifies the Fascist Felon fucker for a Nobel.

#25thNow
#25th47

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 12h

I have as much sympathy for the plight of ICE agents in LA, Chicago, and Portland as I have for Russian troops in Ukraine.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
prospect.org/politics/tru...

As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”